Okonomiyaki

Just had an absolutely scintillating Japanese cooking class. If you have the ingredients (which I plan on stocking in the new house) it is very healthy cooking. We made Okonomiyaki with pork and assorted sea food and nyumen, which was japanese noodles. Before I get into the recipes, the learnings from today - Stirring, mixing, beating with chopsticks can be a very efficient method, since it won't stick on half as much as it does to the spatula. The second - buy a big, flat spoon like she had. Most useful for flipping okonomiyaki and can be used for omelettes, paranthas, dosas, spanish tortillas etc. And now for the recipes:

★OKONOMIYAKI★
Ingredients
・Okonomiyaki floor 100g (1 cup)
・1 egg
・100 cc water
・two or three pieces of cabbages (these were fistfulls)【Possible ingredients to put into/onto okonomiyaki】
・Pork (thinly sliced or ground) ！Beef is also good.
・Seafood (Picard mix seafood) ！Raw seafood is much better.
・Tenkasu (tempura crumbs)
・Katsuobushi (Dried , shaved bonito)
・Aonori (Green dried seaweed)
・Okonomiyaki sauce
・Mayonnaise
Preparation
1. Cut the cabbage into very thin slices without the hard, white core in this strings.
2. Mix the Okonomiyaki flour, eggs, water and cabbage
3. You may now add more ingredients to the dough. (ex. seafood, tenkasu )
4. Fry the dough like a pancake in a frying pan.
5. Before turning the Okonomiyaki over, and while the dough is still quite soft, you may put other ingredients on top of the dough (like the pork slices)
6.Turn the Okonomiyaki
7. When fried well, serve the Okonomiyaki with Okonomiyaki sauce, katsuobushi, aonori and mayonnaise.
☆General Information☆
Depending on the region of Japan, okonomiyaki is prepared in various different styles,In Japan, there are two areas where okonomiyaki is very popular; Osaka and Hiroshima.In Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki, chopped cabbage and yakisoba (fried noodles) are cooled on top of thinly spread dough.In Osaka-style okonomiyaki, chopped cabbage is mixed with the dough and cooked together.It might be easier for beginner to cook Osaka -style okonomiyaki than to cook Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki.

★Nyumen★
Nyumen is hot somen,Somen is kind of noodles. Its made of wheat.We usually eat hiyashi somen in hot summer. Hiyashi means cold.But in cold wether, we eat nyumen. Let's try cooking!【Ingredients】
・1 or 2 bunches of somen
・3 cups of water
・half pack of hondashi (powder of bonito)
・1.5 teaspoons of Soysause
・1.5 teaspoons of Mirin (this was rice wine)
・egg (as you like) (learning - dont break; keep the yolk ball)
Eat with...
・Nori (Dried seaweed)
・Yuzu kosho (Yuzu pepper)
・Wasabi
・Hichimi (this was mind blowing; great!; a lemony, peppery taste)

It was a lovely class and I'm waiting to try this out for Tweedledum. But Ill have to wait for London before I go buying the ingredients. Right now, I'm making a huge effort to finish the food stuff I aleady have before we leave for home.